Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [det] than [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is determined by the gradient of the average cost curve , and by the degree to which plants are operating at less than MES . |
| 2 | The seats are cushioned , and in the dark I am waiting for more than entertainment . |
| 3 | ‘ Good ’ work has to be seen as More than crime-fighting : ‘ Like , this is the sort of job that you come off at the end of the night and say to yourself ‘ What did I do ? ’ |
| 4 | Auction houses have an obligation to the vendor and are unlikely to allow anything to be sold for less than cost . |
| 5 | Football , and Swindon Town step up their promotion challenge at Southend tonight … and they 'll be hoping for more than Oxford and Hereford got last night … |
| 6 | Between the pathologists and police communication was intermittent , for they were parted by more than space . |
| 7 | But quite soon different conclusions were drawn from this than Moore 's . |
| 8 | So a truce was made with the Spartans ( 451 ) which , as Thucydides describes it ( i.112 ) , need not have been motivated by more than Athens ' commonsense desire to deal with her enemies one by one . |
| 9 | If the technology is used for more than word processing then lawyers will certainly need to be trained . |
| 10 | Such an argument I do not commend to anybody else , but man is guided by more than reason alone , and in this great conflict , I wanted to play a clear and definite part . |